Barcus, Nancy B,

Developing a Christian mind : a fearless happy ease amid the conflicts of secular thought / [print] Nancy B. Barcus. - Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, (c)1977. - 100, 1. pages ; 21 cm.



The Christian mind : introduction. Where the danger lies ; Not wings but weights ; That rigid orthodoxy ; The exhilaration of discovery -- Meaning and the shattered box : science. The box that science built ; Looking at a hat : Whitehead ; Good news for whom? ; Science without arrogance : Planck ; Something about God ; The dark side of the data : Monod ; From the laboratory to the pulpit ; Building no boxes -- The call of the winds : nature. From the ground you were taken ; A church to walk in : Thoreau ; The gift of ears, the gift of eyes ; Lessons learned in the desert : Krutch ; Something behind ; Amazed at the dream animal : Eiseley ; A seed pod, a grasshopper--and wonder ; The mute gospel -- A world come of age : humanism. The second great transition : Boulding ; Building a new religion : Huxley ; Consciousness II lives : Reich ; Blueprint for a new society : Skinner ; Who engineers the engineers? ; Ethics reduced to survival ; The dimensions of divine creaturehood -- Knowledge and pain : conclusion. The other side of darkness ; The dangers of faith apart from thought ; Promises of understanding ; Light in the morning.



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Apologetics.
Christian life.

BT1102.B244.D484 1977 BT1102